Oskar Blues to drop CyclHOPS on Longmont by end of the year

Company announces combination cantina and bike shop

Times-Call staff

Posted:
09/04/2013 06:41:06 PM MDT

Updated:
09/04/2013 06:42:08 PM MDT

This photo, taken in August 2012, shows blueprints and an empty Dale's Pale Ale glass in the former home of Jack's, in the Meadow View Shopping Center at Airport and Nelson roads. Oskar Blues on Wednesday announced plans to open CyclHOPS Bike CAN-tina, a combination Mexican restaurant and bike shop/REEB dealership, in the space by the end of the year. (Matthew Jonas/Times-Call)
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LONGMONT -- Oskar Blues late Wednesday announced its newest addition to the Longmont dining scene: CyclHOPS Bike CAN-tina, which it says will open by the end of this year.

The craft brewer's newest venture is described in the announcement as a "quick full-service taco and tequila eatery" that also will be a full-service bike shop and the official retail home of REEB, the company's line of bikes.

CyclHOPS will be at 600 S. Airport Road, in the Meadow View Shopping Center on the southeast corner of Airport and Nelson roads.

Oskar Blues' chef, Jason Rogers, calls the restaurant portion of the business a "creative Rocky Mountain-Biker-Chef take on a taqueria menu with a mix of quality tequilas and beer."

REEB was started by Oskar Blues' founder Dale Katechis after his mountain bike was stolen in 2011. He hooked up with local welder Chris Sulfrian to design a hand-crafted bike that uses a Gates Carbon Drive instead of a chain and 100 percent American-made materials.

CyclHOPS follows CHUBurger, a "craft casual" restaurant Oskar Blues opened in April, and Home Made Liquids and Solids, which opened in Longmont in October 2009. The brewery's headquarters relocated to Longmont from Lyons in 2008, though it still brews small batches of beer in Lyons and operates its original Grill & Brew there. It opened the Tasty Weasel Tap Room at its 1800 Pike Road brewery in Longmont in 2009.